Re: List posting rules

2019-11-02 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 2:01 PM Dora Scilipoti wrote: > You, Carlos O'Donell, and your fellow censor Mark Wielaard, should NOT > be the moderators of this list. You are both signers of a public > document that calls for the removal of Richard Stallman as the leader of > GNU, namel

Re: list moderation

2019-11-03 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 12:41 PM Brandon Invergo wrote: > For the past month or so, every message to the list has been subject to > moderation, so-called "emergency moderation". It has become clear that > the moderation was being used in a biased manner. We have decided to > remove Mark and

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-03 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 4:02 PM Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > No, or minimal moderation -- as has always been the case for GNU > lists. It is better to let a off-topic message through, and > communicate to the user of the case than to reject it. It is better > to ask the person to use a kinder tone

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-03 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:32 PM Ruben Safir wrote: > Nobody believes this except for a few hysterical lunitics. Your > posting this as such is another form of disinformation and an attack on > the intelligence of the GNU community. This is unkind and doesn't contribute to a constructive

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-12-10 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 12:44 PM Andreas Enge wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 09:46:56PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Thanks, Andreas, for this new version! Some comments below. > > They are integrated into the attached new version. For good measure, > I have capitalised "GNU System" as

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-12-10 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:21 AM Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 12:44 PM Andreas Enge wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 09:46:56PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > Thanks, Andreas, for this new version! Some comments below. > > > >

Re: Setting up a wiki for GNU Project volunteers?

2019-12-15 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:00 AM Brandon Invergo wrote: > In the interest of public transparency and honesty, you should have > mentioned that Richard has already explicitly and unequivocally rejected > the proposal for a public, project-wide wiki. Therefore, the following > question must be

Re: Setting up a wiki for GNU Project volunteers?

2019-12-11 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:12 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > > Carlos O'Donell, 10/12/19 20:25: > > Selection criteria for a wiki? > > It must support multilingualism and have the best-in-class support for > i18n, which is currently a GNU high priority. > <https://www

Setting up a wiki for GNU Project volunteers?

2019-12-10 Thread Carlos O'Donell
Wikis are useful software that allows developers to work collaboratively and quickly on informal documents that are part of the day-to-day running of the packages or project activities. This includes documenting such things as: - Email thread summaries - Status updates - Meeting notes - Summaries

Re: “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses” (was: A GNU “social contract”?)

2019-10-27 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:03 PM Mark Wielaard wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 02:35 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > * GNU licenses uphold user freedom > > > > > > The GNU Project has designed software licenses to ensure developers > > > cannot strip off user

Re: gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org is premoderated (was: ML posting issues)

2019-10-28 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:21 AM Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 05:22:48AM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > >> Iʼd like to report that my message number d0eidcqu.321...@gmail.com > >> (below), sent a day ago to

Re: A GNU “social contract†?

2019-10-28 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 6:19 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Hi Alfred, > > a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis: > > > What GNU maintainers agree to is very small, it is only to follow the > > policies that we have. They don't need to go beyond that, which is > > what "uphold" would imply. > >

Re: gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org is premoderated

2019-10-28 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 4:30 PM Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Carlos O'Donell: > > > The GNU C Library main development list was pre-moderated for almost 5 > > years. During that period we moved a lot of conversations to the glibc > > help mailing list using moderation

What is governance and to whom would it extend to in the GNU Project?

2019-10-23 Thread Carlos O'Donell
I wanted to kick off a conversation about what is a governance model, and to whom it would apply. A governance model would apply to all of the people who are part of the GNU Project, and so discussing these two points makes sense to me. I look forward to any feedback about this. What is a

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:21 AM Ruben Safir wrote: > > On 10/22/19 4:31 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > That is a different organization model. > > > Yeah, I'm not interested in anything that reduces RMS's influence and > control of GNU at this point. I think he has been abused and I just > don't

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM DJ Delorie wrote: > Even if we all agree on the "big picture simple answer" the details and > "best practices" are just as important. > > Do you have any suggestions for filling in these details? The day-to-day running of things should certainly be documented

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-01 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 9:20 AM Dora Scilipoti wrote: > Please note that the message posted by a woman on Oct 30 contains a > repetition of what we all have already read on dishonest media. Sandra Loosemore posted her opinions for the first time. She didn't repeat herself. Cheers, Carlos.

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-10-31 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 7:29 AM Ruben Safir wrote: > Just because YOU say he is defending sexual abuse of minors doesn't make > it so, no matter HOW many times you say it. That is the fact and > hiding that fact behind charges of sexism is immoral. Please follow the rules of this list.

Re: Setting up a wiki for GNU Project volunteers?

2019-12-20 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 5:22 AM Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > You say we must follow requirements and policies, but yet you > purposely rejected it when you removed text that was explcitly asked > to be kept by RMS in the glibc manual. Which is it? Yes, we must follow requirements and policies.

Re: what is GNU? what is a social contract?

2020-02-13 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:18 AM Carlo Wood wrote: > They are hostile towards the GNU project. Yes, we are opposed to the current governance structure of the GNU Project. > Therefore, there is nothing to discuss really. The correct > thing to do right now is to ignore their attempts to sow

Re: I suspect that there is no such thing as a "GNU Social Contract"

2020-02-10 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:49 AM J.B. Nicholson wrote: > gnu.tools' current domain registrar (namecheap.com)[1] is not the same as > gnu.org's > current domain registrar[2] (gandi.net). gnu.tools' owner is not publicly > listed in > whois but gnu.org's organizational owner is publicly listed in

Feedback on the GNU Social contract and new wiki.gnu.tools.

2020-01-28 Thread Carlos O'Donell
Myself and several other GNU Maintainers have been publicly discussing a GNU Social contract on gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org and what it means to be a GNU Project volunteer. We are continuing that discussion by reaching out (by email) to all GNU Maintainers. We look forward to your feedback! Please

Re: A summary of some open discussions

2020-01-13 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:16 AM Brandon Invergo wrote: > Mark Wielaard writes: > > >> There is no such thing as a FSF steward, GNU maintainers are appointed > >> by RMS/GAC. The FSF has no say in the topic. You've keept > >> misrepresenting this over and over again. > > > > This is just a legal

Re: Moderation

2020-01-14 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 2:25 PM Jean Louis wrote: > Then why did you start in the first place with defamation of GNU > project and RMS? Ludovic is asking about what is being written on the mailing list, but your response is a question about a statement that has nothing to do with what is being

Re: suspending FSF contributor agreements with immediate effect

2020-01-14 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:39 AM Daniel Pocock wrote: > FSF will not change unless somebody gives them a strong reason to change. > > For example, if GNU developers write the following email to FSF, that > will bring change. > > Each developer needs to make their own decision if they will send

Re: Concerns about GNU Bison maintenance.

2020-08-06 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:58 PM Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) <936-846-2...@kylheku.com> wrote: > Distros still have old versions of Bison (easily as far as ten years), > possibly because they have discovered that Bison upgrades are > radioactive. In Fedora we update bison at each release. In